The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-28
A Home of Our Own.

A Home OF Our OWN.
Iwrite this from under my own vine
and ig tree, from beneath roof of
my own. am landed proprietor a
taxpayer, the owner of bit of ground,
and house in the freshness and beauty
IF its first painting and papering and
polishing. Ever since our marriage,
seven years ago, my wife and | have
longed for this day to come. We have
saved and "scrimped" and hoped and
prayed for it, and at last it has come
We have Said out hundreds of dollars
n rent and been moved and hustled
around from house to house, and place
% place, in the nomadc manner too
common among young married people
n America.
No one can know with what breath
If infinite relief said last week to
Mrs. Dane, at the close of wearisome
moving day, "Well, my dear, thank
The fates, this is our last move"
well, l hope so, for goodness's
,ake," said Mrs Dane with marked
'orce.
And when our two cherished Brussels
carpets were BEN cut and slaShed into
10 recRlessly, to fit the parlor and sit
ing room, Mrs. Dane said, gratefully.
"Well, it's the last time they IL have to
30 cut for they are down to stay now;
hats one consolation"
The home we are so happy in is not
Ill paid for, but we see our way clear
20 pay for it in time, and any kind of a
home is preferable to a lifelong paying
If rent. Young married people should
tart out in life with the fixed de-
termination of putting a roof over
heir heads they can call their own;
ind this is not such very hard thing
o do in these days of loan and build
ng associations and cheap rates of in
crest My interest and taxes are not
much more than half the amount l
lave been paying in rents.
1t is difficult to define the feeling one
las in home of ones own. There is
something in being ''landed proprie-
tori that tones one up wonderfully,
md adds dignity and earnestness to
life. You literally feel that you are
somebody. Life takes on new mean
ng and new joys you have something
10 live for and work for. actually
elt a positive pleasure in paying ny
axes yesterday, and felt sorry for the
poor fellows who haven't any taxes to
pay.
set out some rose bushes last week,
,xulting in the thought that they were
nine, and neither they nor | were sub
iect to the within or the interests Of
lone real estate agent, who could
give us thirty days notice and then
turn us adrift.
No longer am l member of the
mighty and miserable army of house
hunters. My rent days are done. l
irive nails and tacks and hammer and
pound when and where l please.
When l come home from my office at
night, It is home indeed to me.
And when one has children 1t Is
more necessary than ever that there be
1 place for them that they can call
nome; a place that they can love and
remember as home throughout all
heir after lives. l hope to see the
,hildlen of my eight-month,' old baby
playing in this house some day. We
ave bought a good house because we
hink we shall live in this city all our
ives. and we never want to go
through the miseries of another family
move.
A home of your own is. 1 insist, the
very best investment a young couple
IAN make. II is something worth
,aving. and working, and living for
Good Housekeeping.